Thematic Bible: Bottles


Thematic Bible



Its collapse will be like the shattering
of a potter’s jar, crushed to pieces,
so that not even a fragment of pottery
will be found among its shattered remains—
no fragment large enough to take fire from a hearth
or scoop water from a cistern.”
Verse ConceptsPotterBreaking ContainersWeed

“Then you are to shatter the jar in the presence of the people traveling with you, Verse ConceptsBreaking Containers

Therefore look, the days are coming—
this is the Lord’s declaration—
when I will send those to him, who will pour him out.
They will empty his containers
and smash his jars.
Verse ConceptsBreaking Containers

Early in the morning Abraham got up, took bread and a waterskin, [put them] on Hagar's shoulders, and sent her and the boy away. She left and wandered in the Wilderness of Beer-sheba. When the water in the skin was gone, she left the boy under one of the bushes.

Then God opened her eyes, and she saw a well of water. So she went and filled the waterskin and gave the boy a drink. Verse ConceptsWaterWater ContainersMan Providing WaterReceiving Sight

When she had weaned him, she took him with her to Shiloh, as well as a three-year-old bull, half a bushel of flour, and a jar of wine. Though the boy was still young, she took him to the Lord’s house at Shiloh. Verse ConceptsInfantsBottle, UsesWineWineskinChildren, Should Be TreatedLimitations Of YouthQuantities Of WineAnimals At Specific AgesEphah [Ten Omers]The House Of God At Shiloh

So Jesse took a donkey loaded with bread, a skin of wine, and one young goat and sent them by his son David to Saul. Verse ConceptsQuantities Of Wine

When David had gone a little beyond the summit, Ziba, Mephibosheth’s servant, was right there to meet him. He had a pair of saddled donkeys loaded with 200 loaves of bread, 100 clusters of raisins, 100 bunches of summer fruit, and a skin of wine. Verse ConceptsFruitFoodFig treeRaisinsStewardshipWaitingOne HundredThe Number Two HundredSummer Fruit

Abigail hurried, taking 200 loaves of bread, two skins of wine, five butchered sheep, a bushel of roasted grain, 100 clusters of raisins, and 200 cakes of pressed figs, and loaded them on donkeys. Verse ConceptsFoodFig treeGrainRaisinsSheepWeights And Measures, DryFigsOne HundredThe Number Two HundredDried FruitQuantities Of WineHasty ActionOther Volume Measures

These wineskins were new when we filled them, but look, they are cracked. And these clothes and sandals of ours are worn out from the extremely long journey.” Verse ConceptsShoesThings Wearing OutUnusedWineskins And Vats

Then the men of Israel took some of their provisions, but did not seek the Lord’s counsel. Verse ConceptsAskingNot Enquiring Of GodDirection

And no one puts new wine into old wineskins. Otherwise, the skins burst, the wine spills out, and the skins are ruined. But they put new wine into fresh wineskins, and both are preserved.” Verse ConceptsAlcoholBottles, Figurative UseNewnessWineParables Of ChristAlcohol ConsumptionPutting Off The Old ManBreaking ContainersOld ThingsUnusedFreshPeople KeepingWineskins And Vatstoughness

And no one puts new wine into old wineskins. Otherwise, the wine will burst the skins, and the wine is lost as well as the skins. But new wine is for fresh wineskins.” Verse ConceptsBottle, UsesNewnessWineAlcohol ConsumptionBreaking ContainersOld ThingsUnusedFreshWineskins And Vatstoughness

"Say this to them: This is what the Lord, the God of Israel, says: Every jar should be filled with wine. Then they will respond to you: Don't we know that every jar should be filled with wine? And you will say to them, This is what the Lord says: I am about to fill all who live in this land-the kings who reign for David on his throne, the priests, the prophets and all the residents of Jerusalem-with drunkenness. I will smash them against each other, fathers and sons alike"-the Lord's declaration. "I will allow no mercy, pity, or compassion [to keep Me] from destroying them."


This is what the Lord says: “Go, buy a potter’s clay jar. Take some of the elders of the people and some of the leading priests Verse Conceptselders, as community leadersPotterPottery

Early in the morning Abraham got up, took bread and a waterskin, put them on Hagar’s shoulders, and sent her and the boy away. She left and wandered in the Wilderness of Beer-sheba. Verse ConceptsShouldersBottle, UsesDeserts, SpecificThe HomelessWater ContainersWanderersThose Who Rose EarlyCarrying Other LoadsExamples Of Love For Children

Though I have become like a wineskin dried by smoke,
I do not forget Your statutes.
Verse ConceptsBottles, Figurative UseSmokeWineskinWineskins And VatsSmoke Used Poetically

Though I have become like a wineskin dried by smoke,
I do not forget Your statutes.
Verse ConceptsBottles, Figurative UseSmokeWineskinWineskins And VatsSmoke Used Poetically

He said to her, “Please give me a little water to drink for I am thirsty.” She opened a container of milk, gave him a drink, and covered him again. Verse ConceptsBottle, UsesMilkWaterBeverages, LiteralDairy

You Yourself have recorded my wanderings.
Put my tears in Your bottle.
Are they not in Your records?
Verse ConceptsBottles, Figurative UseBook of lifeDiariesWeepingTearsWater ContainersWandererswandering

My heart is like unvented wine;
it is about to burst like new wineskins.
Verse ConceptsBottles, Figurative UseWineWineskins And Vatsventing

Who has the wisdom to number the clouds?
Or who can tilt the water jars of heaven
Verse ConceptsBottles, Figurative UseUncountableWater ContainersGod Sending RainSpilling Your Seed On The Ground

“Then you are to shatter the jar in the presence of the people traveling with you, Verse ConceptsBreaking Containers

“Say this to them: This is what the Lord, the God of Israel, says: Every jar should be filled with wine. Then they will respond to you, ‘Don’t we know that every jar should be filled with wine?’ Verse ConceptsPlenty Of WinePeople With General Knowledge

This is what the Lord says: "Go, buy a potter's clay jug. Take some of the elders of the people and some of the elders of the priests and go out to the Valley of Hinnom near the entrance of the Potsherd Gate. Proclaim there the words I speak to you.

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